>On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:35:19AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >T-state is Processor Clock Throttling state. It is designated to throttle >> >the >> >processor clock in a few specific situations, like the CPU temperature >> >exceeds a threshold value. >> > >> >T-state is defined in ACPI spec and need BIOS implementation to get >> >supported. The warning message means T-state is not supported on >> >your machine. This is mostly because the BIOS doesn't support it. >> >> Many systems don't support this, certainly older systems. The system >> should not give an error message. >> >> >Don't worry, your system won't be impacted at all without T-state support. >> >BIOS and Solaris kernel will cover all the cases of T-state. > >Ahhhh - ok. Thanx for explaination. IIRC the Intel SpeedStep thing is >disabled in the BIOS (its a i2500PAL board). Or perhaps there is another >related option, which sounds not as intuitive as it should ;-) > >> But the code should be fixed. > >Yes - or adding a hint in a wiki/glossary for snv/opensolaris (is there >one?) might help to get a googable answer quickly as well ...
The system should not produce scaring messages when there is no action to be taken. (I see the same message on an old P3; we don't support any form of speedstep on that) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list opensolaris-code@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
